1 In Dashboards, a self-contained application that displays business information as content-rich gadgets on a web page. A dashboard supports creating new gadgets and displaying real-time or static data as interactive charts, cross tabs, Flash visualizations, formatted text, and Reportlets. A dashboard contains one or more gadgets that display information or accept user input to change the content of a linked gadget. Dashboards supports the creation and use of dashboards on a BIRT iHub System, as shown in Figure G‑2. Actuate JavaScript API (JSAPI) supports the presentation and linking of Actuate gadgets on a dashboard.
Figure G‑2 A dashboard appearing in Dashboards
2 In Metrics Management, an information pane that shows detailed information about a specific measure or location in a view, briefing book, or map. A dashboard can contain data charts, index charts, data tables, and commentary about measure performance.
A tool that supports building BIRT dashboards and mashups, and viewing and graphically analyzing data in BIRT dashboards, as shown in Figure G‑3. This tool is an additional license option on an BIRT iHub System. Using BIRT content in a dashboard additionally requires Actuate BIRT option.
Figure G‑3 Displaying an analytic dashboard using Dashboards
A process that transfers information from a Metrics Management database to an external location. Data can be exported to XML, as a comma-separated values (.csv) file, or to another database using an ODBC connection.
A process that transfers information from an external source to a Metrics Management database. In Metrics Management, data can be imported from XML, a comma-separated values (.csv) file, and from another database or application using an ODBC connection.
A measure type that contains data. Measure data can be imported or manually entered into Metrics Management. Data measures are always at the lowest level of a view structure, and their data is aggregated at higher levels, such as a formula measure or a group measure.
1 A relational database or other data repository. For example, an Extensible Markup Language (XML) file, a flat file, an information object, or a Java application can be a data source. A report can include any of these types of data. This data source provides data rows to a report or a gadget on a dashboard through a data source element.
2 A design construct that retrieves data rows from a relational database or other data repository.
An integrated collection of logically related records that provides data for information application platforms, such as BIRT. The database model most commonly used is the relational model. Other typical models are entity‑relationship, hierarchical, network, object, and object-relational.
A specialized version of a data warehouse. DataMarts contain a snapshot of Metrics Management data for export to a Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle relational database format for external reporting and analysis purposes.
